Mixed Convection in a Square Cavity Filled with Porous. Medium with Heated Bottom Wall. Prof. Ihsan Y. Hussein,Ph.D. Mechanical Eng. Dept. University of ...
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Mixed Convection in a Square Cavity Filled with Porous Medium with Heated Bottom Wall Prof. Ihsan Y. Hussein,Ph.D
Luma F. Ali
Mechanical Eng. Dept. University of Baghdad Iraq-Baghdad
Mechanical Eng. Dept. University of Baghdad Iraq-Baghdad
ABSTRACT Two-dimensional unsteady mixed convection in a porous cavity with heated bottom wall is numerically studied in the present paper. The forced flow conditions are imposed by providing a hydrostatic pressure head at the inlet port that is located at the bottom of one of the vertical side walls and an open vent at the top of the other vertical side wall. The Darcy model is adopted to model the fluid flow in the porous medium and the combination effects of hydrostatic pressure head and the heat flux quantity parameters are carefully investigated. These governing parameters are varied over wide ranges and their effect on the heat transfer characteristics is studied in detail. It is found that the time required to reach a desired temperature at the bottom wall decreases with heat flux and pressure head increase. The higher heat flux quantities leaves wider regions near the top wall at lower temperatures which is important in most engineering applications like drying.
Keywords Porous Medium, Mixed Convection, Square Cavity, Uniform Heating, Finite Volume Method.
1. INTRODUCTION The involvement of both natural and forced convection, referred as mixed convection, in porous media has been an important topic because of its wide range of applications in engineering and science. Some of these applications include oil extraction, cooling of electronic devices and heat transfer improvement in heat exchanger devices. The interaction mechanisms between the buoyancy-induced flows and forced convection was given very little attention whereas early studies on convection in porous media were largely devoted to buoyancy-induced flows and forced convection. Initial research on mixed convection was motivated to provide a fundemeantal understanding of the upward convective drift of subsurface ground water due to buoyancy caused by high temperatures in the geothermal region of Wairakei, New Zealand [1&2]. Mainly, the problems of mixed convection in confined porous medium can be classified into two categories, first the type of moving lid cavities filled with porous medium with different boundary conditions while the second category involves mixed convection resulted from exit ports, vented openings, open cavities, or vibration effects. The problem of mixed convective flow and heat transfer in a top lid driven enclosure filled with a Darcian fluid-saturated porous medium with internal heat generation was analyzed by Khanafer and Chamkha [3]. Al-Amiri [4] and Kandaswamy et. al. [5] scrutinized numerically the laminar transport in a lid-driven two-dimensional fluid-saturated porous medium
square cavity with top wall moving and kept at a constant temperature higher than that of the bottom. Furthermore, the influence of the buoyancy ratio, Lewis number, Reynolds number, and Darcy number on heat and mass transfer processes in double-diffusive mixed convection in a top lid driven enclosure filled with a non-Darcian saturated porous medium was analyzed by Khanafer and Vafai [6]. Later, Oztop [7] analyzed numerically the effect of the position of a heater with finite length on the fixed wall in a partially heated porous top lid driven square enclosure on the combined heat transfer field and fluid flow. The lattice Boltzmann method was used by Chai et. al. [8] in order to simulate the mixed convection in a top lid-driven square cavity packed with homogeneous and isotropic porous medium. The steady and unsteady mixed convection flow in a square enclosure filled with a fluid-saturated uniform porous medium with two vertical walls moving upward and upward and downward was investigated respectively by Vishnuvardhanarao and Das [9] and Kumar et. al. [10]. Afterwards, Muthtamilselvan et. al. [11] examined numerically convection in a two-sided liddriven heat generating porous cavity with alternative thermal boundary conditions. While, steady mixed convection flow in a two-dimensional square cavity filled with a non-Darcy fluid saturated porous medium with internal heat generation was investigated numerically by Kumari and Nath [12] using the penalty finite element method. Waheed et. al. [13] conducted numerically the buoyancy and shear-driven flow induced by a hot plate moving through the horizontal mid-plane of a rectangular enclosure filled with fluid-saturated porous medium. Finally, Oztop [14] analyzed numerically the effects of buoyancy-aiding or buoyancy-opposing mechanisms on laminar mixed convection heat transfer in a porous enclosure partially cooled from the left vertical wall for two different forms of thermal boundary conditions in steady state regime using the Darcy-Brinkman-Forchheimer equation model. For the second category of mixed convection, Mahmud and Pop [15], Ghazanfarian and Abbassi [16], and Bhuiyan et. al. [17] examined numerically the steady laminar mixed convection flow in a square vented cavity filled with a fluidsaturated porous medium. The transformed equations of Darcy and energy in non-dimensional form had been solved by utilizing different numerical methods, and the variation of Rayleigh number, Peclet number, and the width of the inlet as a fraction of the enclosure height over wide ranges were studied in detail. While, Chung and Vafai [18] constituted the first study of vibration and buoyancy induced mixed convection in an open-ended obstructed cavity filled with a fluid-saturated porous medium. They discussed the variation effect of the vibrational Reynolds, modified Rayleigh, and Darcy numbers on streamlines, isotherms, the average Nusselt number and additionally the variation effects of Prandtl 38
International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 β 8887) Volume 74β No.6, July 2013 number and dimensionless frequency of the vertical vibrational velocity were also examined. The influence of multiple injection/suction at bottom/top walls on non-Darcy mixed convection flow in a vertical square enclosure filled with fluid-saturated porous medium was studied computationally using finite element method by Kumar and Murthy [19]. They carried out detailed numerical solutions for a wide range of parameters such as Grashof number, Rayleigh number, injection/suction velocity, and injection/suction window width. In the present study, transient mixed convection in a twodimensional square cavity subjected to hydrostatic pressure head and filled with a Darcian fluid-saturated porous medium is investigated numerically. The two vertical walls of the confined porous medium are insulated while the bottom wall is heated uniformly and the heat is lost by convection from the top wall which is exposed to the environment. Detailed numerical solutions are carried out by utilizing the finite volume method for a range of parameters, namely the pressure head and the amount of the uniform heating. Numerical results are obtained for pressure, velocity and temperature fields within the enclosure and are displayed using pressure contours, velocity vector plot and isotherms respectively.
2. MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION The two-dimensional inclined cavity under investigation is filled with fluid-saturated porous medium and all the walls are impermeable except the upper wall. Glass beads with specified diameter is used as a porous media and distilled water is used as the incompressible fluid that saturates the porous medium. The schematic configuration of the problem is illustrated in Fig. 1, with πΏ denoting the length of the square cavity. Furthermore, the porous medium is assumed to be in local thermal equilibrium with the fluid. The two vertical left and right sidewalls are adiabatic, and a uniform heating is applied on the bottom wall while the top wall is exposed to the environment and losses heat by natural convection. Water is supplied to the cavity from an external tank with a static head from an opening inlet at the bottom left corner and there is a water outlet open at the upper right corner. The thermophysical properties of the fluid and the porous material are taken to be constant except for the density variation in the buoyancy force, which is treated by the Boussinesq approximation. The Darcy equation formulation is adopted for modeling the fluid flow in the porous medium. The governing equations for mass, momentum, and energy in two-dimensional, Cartesian coordinates, laminar flow are as follows: Continuity equation ππ’ ππ₯
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Figure (1): Schematic Diagram of the Physical Problem and Coordinates System. where π’ and π£ are the fluid velocities in π₯ and π¦ directions respectively, πΎ is the porous medium permeability, ππ is the fluid dynamic viscosity, π is fluid pressure, ππ is the fluid density, π is the acceleration due to gravity, π is the inclination angle of the cavity, π is the fluid temperature, π‘ is the time, and π is the specific heat ratio which is given as: π=
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Equations (4) and (13) are solved numerically with the applied initial and boundary conditions to simulate the mixed convection in the inclined square cavity. The average Nusselt number on the bottom hot wall is given as: ππ’ =
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3. NUMERICAL FORMULATION The governing equations (4) and (13) in the present problem of mixed convection in a cavity filled with porous medium are solved by using the finite volume method [22]. A fully implicit scheme is applied for discretizing the time derivatives. The convective fluxes at the cell interface are discretized by employing the Quadratic Upwind Interpolation for Convective Kinematics (QUICK) scheme and a secondorder central difference scheme is used for the diffusion terms. The resulting algebraic equations are solved by the tridiagonal matrix algorithm (TDMA). For convergence criteria, the relative variations of the temperature and pressure between two successive iterations are demanded to be smaller than the previously specified accuracy levels of 10β5 . The iterative procedure is initiated by the solution of the pressure equation followed by calculating the velocity field and then solving the energy equation until reaching a specific temperature. This specified temperature is the mean value of selected location temperatures near the bottom heated wall. In the present study, the desired temperature is taken as 90 β which is the temperature at which the working water fluid changes to the two phase condition.
4. CODE VALIDATION AND INDEPENDENCY TEST
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Before proceeding further, the grid independency tests are performed first. Numerical experiments were performed for various grid sizes viz. 12 Γ 12, 16 Γ 16, 20 Γ 20, 24 Γ 24, 28 Γ 28, and 32 Γ 32 to test and estimate the grid independent solutions. These numerical experiments were accomplished for a hydrostatic head βπ = 10 ππ and constant heat flux π = 100 π π2 . It is observed that the average Nusselt number values at the bottom heated wall of the enclosure are very near to each other when the grid size is near 24 Γ 24. Therefore, a grid size of 24 Γ 24 is chosen for further computations because it consumed less computing time. The parameters of convergence are fixed to 10β5 for both pressure and temperature. Furthermore, a similar test was
Published experimental data are not available for the cavity configuration and boundary conditions similar to that taken in the present study. Thus, the validation of the computations against suitable experimental data could not be performed. However, in order to validate the predictive capability and accuracy of the present code, five published works have been chosen. For validation purpose of mixed convection flow and heat transfer, a differentially heated square cavity of natural laminar heat transfer is considered. The left surface is heated isothermally and right surface is cooled to a lower temperature with top and the bottom walls maintained thermally insulated. Average Nusselt number is calculated and depicted in Table (1) for π
π = 100 and compared with the earlier investigations [23-27]. From Table (1), it is clearly revealed that the agreement between the present and the previous results is very good indeed. So, these results provide great confidence to the accuracy of the present numerical method. Table (1): Comparison of Average Nusselt number with Previous Workers for πΉπ = πππ. Authors ππ’ Saeid and Pop [23] 3.002 Baytas [24] 3.160 Bejan [25] 4.200 Walker and Homsy [26] 3.097 Present result 3.076 In the present investigation, Soda Lime glass beads saturated with distilled water is chosen as a porous media. Its permeability and porosity are taken as 1.57 Γ 10β9 and 0.418 respectively. The controlling parameters on the heat transfer and fluid flow for this investigation are the hydrostatic pressure head and the constant heat flux. The computations have been carried out for the pressure head of βπ = 5, 10, 15, 20, and 30ππ. The constant heat flux is varied in the range from 50 to 750 π π2 . Figure (2) shows the pressure distribution for different values of pressure head for a fixed value of heat flux (100 π π2 ). The pressure distribution is not affected by heat flux variation in spite of temperature appearance in Eq. (13). It is influenced by the pressure head variation in proportional form, i.e. the hydrostatic pressure at certain location increases with pressure head increasing. This is due to the increasing of the pressure value at the bottom and consequently alter the pressure distribution in the enclosure. The temperature distribution for different pressure head values and a fixed value of 100 π π2 heat flux is displayed in Fig. (3). Figure (3) depicts that the temperature field is not strongly influenced by pressure head variation, but the pressure head increasing decreases the time required to reach a temperature of 90β at the bottom enclosure wall. As mentioned above, increasing the pressure head leads to an increase in the pressure field which tends to increase the fluid velocity and then decreasing the consumed time for reaching a desired temperature. This behavior is clearly shown in Figs. (4) and (5). In these two figures, the temperature contours are illustrated for different time steps and for two pressure head values of βπ = 5ππ and βπ = 10ππ. It is clearly depicted that for the same time step, the temperature at the bottom wall of the enclosure is higher with increasing pressure head and
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Figure (7): Temperature contours for different heat flux values and pressure head βπ = ππ ππ when reaching π» = ππβ. (a) πππ πΎ ππ , (b) πππ πΎ ππ , (c) πππ πΎ ππ , (d) πππ πΎ ππ .
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Figure (8): Time required to reach a temperature of ππ β at certain heat flux value for different hydrostatic head values.
velocity fluid increasing. These convection currents plays a major role in transferring heat through the porous enclosure. The average Nusselt number relation with time at the bottom heated wall for different heat flux values is displayed in Fig. (9). The Nusselt number decreases with the increasing time of simulation until reaching the desired 90 β temperature. That is, the temperature gradient decreases with increasing time because the temperature increases with time due to the heat transfer between two locations and hence the temperature difference for these two locations becomes smaller. It is also observed that the same Nusselt Number values are obtained for different heat flux values but with smaller consuming time for reaching the desired temperature. Accordingly, the Nusselt number at the desired temperature needs larger time when heat flux subjected to the bottom wall increases, see Fig. (10). In this figure, the heat flux increasing cause the temperature gradient increase and thence the Nusselt number increase, see Eq. (14). Also, the pressure head variation does not make any variation on the Nusselt number at certain heat flux value.
Figure (9): Nusselt number variation with time for different heat flux values.
6. CONCLUSIONS
Figure (10): Nusselt number variation with heat flux for different hydrostatic pressure head at π» = ππ β.
Convective flow and heat transfer in a square porous cavity with constant heat flux at the bottom wall is investigated numerically. The following conclusions are made from this study. ο· The pressure field and the velocity vector are increased with increasing hydrostatic pressure head. ο· Time required for reaching a desired temperature is decreased with increasing heat flux and pressure head values. ο· Increasing heat flux at certain pressure head leaves regions near the top cavity wall at lower temperature values. ο· Increasing the hydrostatic pressure head does not affect the temperature field at the final state of reaching the desired temperature but affect it at earlier simulation time step. ο· Average Nusselt number at the bottom heated wall is decreased with increasing time of simulation and it is increased proportionally with heat flux increasing.
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